America
Jake Grafton Series: Book #9
- By: Stephen Coonts
- Narrated by: John Kenneth
- Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Description
When an experimental nuclear submarine is hijacked in broad daylight, only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: Washington D.C.
Hundreds of people have gathered to watch the launching of the USS America—our newest and most sophisticated nuclear submarine. Then, the unthinkable happens: armed men emerge from the tugboat that is leading her to sea, board the submarine and man her controls. Half of the men onboard are slaughtered and half are put out to sea. Before nearby destroyers can react, the sub disappears.
Admiral Jake Grafton is resting at his Delaware beach house when he is asked to find out who has stolen his submarine and why. He learns that a rogue CIA group, originally trained to steal Russian technology during the Cold War, may be behind the operation. And soon it becomes clear that, whatever their purpose, they mean business: within hours a missile launched from the submarine destroys the top floor of the White House and a second missile fells an airliner carrying 283 passengers. Now the race is on to find out where the submarine is, who is behind the nightmare scenario and—most critically—how to stop it.
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Jake Grafton Series Series
Flight of the Intruder
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent twenty-eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list and became one of the top twenty bestselling first novels of all time. An instant classic, the book was translated into more than twenty languages and made into a major motion... Read more »
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The Intruders
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A war-weary Navy pilot confronts the deadly skies of the South Pacific, training Marine pilots and battling Soviets MiGs in the wake of the Vietnam War Fighter pilot Jake Grafton is adrift following combat in Vietnam. With no place in the States to call home, Grafton sticks to what he knows best: taking on the world’s most treacherous skies... Read more »
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Final Flight
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
After a particularly long cruise, the USS United States is in port in Naples and her crew is enjoying its first liberty in months. But something's not right. Several crew members have not reported back from their leave and a beautiful American reporter who boarded the United States in Tangiers may not be a reporter, or even an American. When one... Read more »
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The Minotaur
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 16 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
At the height of the Cold War, Captain Jake Grafton becomes entangled in the hunt for a spy selling high-tech military secrets to the Soviet Union.
Naval pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he’s assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as... Read more »
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Under Siege
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Jake Grafton races against time to extinguish a harrowing terrorist plot in Washington, D.C., and prevent all-out catastrophe from enveloping the nation When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited to the United States for trial, he brings his army of vicious mercenaries with him. And as Aldana’s hit men target the... Read more »
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The Red Horseman
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Soviet Union collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads go unaccounted for, and it’ll take someone of Jake Grafton’s talents to make sure they don’t end up in the wrong hands
Promoted to deputy director of a new U.S. intelligence agency, the stakes of Jake Grafton’s commission are higher than ever before. With the USSR on the brink of... Read more »
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Cuba
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The hero of six New York Times bestsellers by Stephen Coonts, author ofFlight of the Intruder and Fortunes of War, returns as the United States and Cuba engage in a terrifying game of brinksmanship, a gamble that could break the last military taboo and destroy both countries.
In Cuba, an ailing Fidel Castro lies dying. Across the Straits of... Read more »
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America
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: John Kenneth
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When an experimental nuclear submarine is hijacked in broad daylight, only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: Washington D.C.
Hundreds of people have gathered to watch the launching of the USS America—our newest and most sophisticated nuclear submarine. Then, the unthinkable happens: armed men emerge... Read more »
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Liberty
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Guerin Barry
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
On a quiet park bench in Manhattan—just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center—a spymaster delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the... Read more »
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